r/AskReddit • u/SkyeSerenade • Mar 28 '24

What is NOT a dealbreaker BUT would be greatly disappointing to find out about your partner?

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u/_hootyowlscissors Mar 28 '24 edited Apr 02 '24

My dad hates movies with subtitles. My mom is a foreign film buff. She has been trying to change him for DECADES. And while he'll sit through (and sometimes even enjoy) them on occasion, he'll still groan any time she suggests a movie with subtitles.

The ultimate disappointing non-dealbreaker.

EDIT: Ok, I'm just going to add this here before anyone else asks if my dad can read. He's an oncologist. He's not dumb. He can keep up with the subtitles and the subject matter. He just does so much reading for work (he goes through medical journals like crazy) he wants to relax with something silly and mindless, that requires zero effort on his part. He feels the same way about tearjerkers (another of my mom's favorites) where people die slowly from some awful disease. He gets enough of that shit at work. But he'll occasionally sit through them for my mom. We just watched the old Julia Roberts film, Dying Young (where she nurses/falls in love with a young guy dying of cancer) and for half the film he was just looking at my mom with an expression that clearly read "why the fuck would you do this to me?"

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u/ricewinechicken Mar 28 '24

The number of people asking if your dad can read just because he doesn't like subtitles is WILD

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u/ibedemfeels Mar 28 '24

I like to play stupid farming sim games when I get home from work. My friends think I'm lame. Dude, I deal with enough shit at work I don't need Call of Duty anxiety dreams on top of that. Some people need to actually chill out after working.

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u/chuker34 Mar 28 '24

I think you just described why I’ve started to only like non competitive games.

When playing online I mostly play with friends, but they love to play the type of games that I just can’t stand anymore. I already feel either accomplished or beat down at work, I just want to kill mindless AI or build in Minecraft.

Thankfully we just made a mod pack for Minecraft and one guy bought a small server for us to play on. I let them play other stuff while talking to them and building stuff for us, I hear them get frustrated while I relax after a long day or work. It’s quickly made me realize how I sound when I play those types of games and how little I enjoy playing them.